History turned intimate''

[SydneyRover]

''Time collapsed as I saw how my grandad lived a century ago''

................. ''But our age is horribly redolent of the postwar era in another way. In 1921, the nation had, just two years earlier, been through a third wave of the influenza pandemic that had begun in 1918. That pandemic claimed more lives globally than the war of 1914-18. In Britain, it sent another 228,000 people to their graves''

Quite an interesting and tragic statistic when you consider the population was 34m in 1918, half what it is now.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/09/cherish-the-1921-census-it-will-be-30-years-before-we-get-such-a-glimpse-into-the-past

[ravenrover]

I've been doing some research . into our family. Always believing our family to have been Yorkshire born and bred I find that only as far back as my paternal Grandfather we are in fact from the slums of Nottingham. I didn't really know my Grandad he died when I was 7 and had been bedbound for many years probably as a result of catching cholera in his youth, my Grandma having died in the 1940's. Going further back the ancestors are all from the poorer parts of Notts and Derbyshire, but the one thing is the potential link back to the village of Bamford. I don't think the new census will reveal much more than I have found out already but you never know.

[SydneyRover]

Here it is RR, it's always interesting.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/1921-census-for-england-and-wales-published-today/#:~:text=Taken%20on%2019%20June%201921,recovering%20from%20a%20global%20pandemic.

[Colin C No.3]

I too have been researching my family’s background & incredibly I found that we had an ancestor who fought & was killed in ‘The Battle of Hastings’.

Well in fairness, he didn’t actually fight in the battle.

Apparently he was camping in the field next door & he’d gone over to complain about the noise.

[Glyn_Wigley]

I've been doing some research . into our family. Always believing our family to have been Yorkshire born and bred I find that only as far back as my paternal Grandfather we are in fact from the slums of Nottingham. I didn't really know my Grandad he died when I was 7 and had been bedbound for many years probably as a result of catching cholera in his youth, my Grandma having died in the 1940's. Going further back the ancestors are all from the poorer parts of Notts and Derbyshire, but the one thing is the potential link back to the village of Bamford. I don't think the new census will reveal much more than I have found out already but you never know.

You're lucky - everybody from my great-great-grandfather backwards as far as I've been able to find all came from Birmingham!! 

[Filo]

I’ve done a lot of family research, I can trace my dads side back to the 1650’s and have many Birth Marriage and Death Certificates. My Grandad was the youngest of 17 kids, his Brother Jobe was killed in the Battle of Marne in WW1, my Grandad was 8 years old at the time, Jobe has no known grave

[ravenrover]

What I should have added is that with my job I have ended up living back jin a village ust outside  Nottingham before I knew about my Grandad

[SydneyRover]

What I should have added is that with my job I have ended up living back jin a village ust outside  Nottingham before I knew about my Grandad

My g-grandfather was born in Old Basford, which sounds about right I guess. I come from a long line of em.

[ravenrover]

Yep my lot have been there as well

[phil old leake]

Glyn unlucky